| Main Entry: | precognition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clairvoyance |
Synonyms: |
ESP, acumen, discernment, extra sensory perception, feeling, foreknowledge, foresight, fortune-telling, insight, intuition, omen, penetration, perception, prediction, premonition, prophecy, psyche, second sight, sixth sense, telepathy |
| Notes: | clairvoyance is a form of ESP, precognition is seeing into the future, and telepathy is mind training and thought transference |
| Main Entry: | clairvoyance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intuition |
Synonyms: |
ESP, acumen, discernment, feeling, foreknowledge, insight, omen, penetration, perception, precognition, premonition, psyche, sixth sense, telepathy |
| Notes: | clairvoyance is a form of ESP, precognition is seeing into the future, and telepathy is mind training and thought transference |
| Main Entry: | extrasensory perception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | psychic power |
Synonyms: |
ESP, clairvoyance, intuition, intuitionism, intuitivism, keen intuition, precognition, presentiment, psychic powers, second sight, sixth sense, telepathy, vision |
| Main Entry: | forecast |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prediction, often of weather or business |
Synonyms: |
anticipation, augury, budget, calculation, cast, conjecture, divination, estimate, foreknowledge, foreseeing, foresight, foretelling, forethought, foretoken, guess, outlook, planning, precognition, prescience, prevision, prognosis, prognostication, projection, prophecy |
| Main Entry: | foresight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental preparedness |
Synonyms: |
anticipation, canniness, care, carefulness, caution, circumspection, clairvoyance, discernment, discreetness, discretion, economy, far-sightedness, foreknowledge, forethought, insight, long-sightedness, perception, precaution, precognition, preconception, premeditation, premonition, prenotion, prescience, prospect, providence, provision, prudence, sagacity |
Antonyms: |
hindsight, ignorance, thoughtlessness |
| Main Entry: | hunch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feeling, idea |
Synonyms: |
anticipation, apprehension, auguration, augury, boding, clue, expectation, feeling in one's bones, foreboding, forecast, foreknowledge, forewarning, forewisdom, funny feeling, glimmer, hint, impression, inkling, instinct, intuition, misgiving, notion, omination, portent, preapprehension, precognition, preconceived notion, premonition, prenotation, prenotice, presage, presagement, prescience, presentiment, qualm, suspicion, thought |
Antonyms: |
proof, reality, truth |
| Main Entry: | foreknowledge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | foresight |
Synonyms: |
anticipation, hunch, precognition, premonition, prescience |
| Main Entry: | second sight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extrasensory perception |
Synonyms: |
ESP, clairvoyance, feyness, inner sense, insight, lucidity, precognition, prescience, sixth sense, the force, third eye |
| Concept: | Foresight. |
| Category: | 2. To the Future |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
foresight, prospicience, prevision, long-sightedness; anticipation; providence (preparation)., forethought, forecast; predeliberation, presurmise; foregone conclusion (prejudgment); prudence (caution)., foreknowledge; prognosis; precognition, prescience, prenotion, presentiment; second sight; sagacity (intelligence); antepast, prelibation, prophasis., prospect (expectation); foretaste; prospectus (plan).
-verbs
foresee; look forwards to, look ahead, look beyond; scent from afar; look into the future, pry into the future, peer into the future., see one's way; see how the land lies, see how the wind blows, see how the cat jumps., anticipate; expect; be beforehand (early); predict; foreknow, forejudge, forecast; presurmise; have an eye to the future, have an eye to the main chance; respicere finem; keep a sharp lookout (vigilance); forewarn.
-adjectives
foreseeing; prescient; farseeing, farsighted; sagacious (intelligent); weatherwise; provident (prepared); prospective.
-adverbs
against the time when.
-phrases
cernit omnia Deus vindex; mihi cura futuri.
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